prayer requests

Our staff and elders receive Crossroads' prayer requests each week.

I cannot look at them without crying each time - praying for each one.

The requests are often praying for children both young and grown who have just discovered cancer or who are struggling with addiction.  

Wives praying that husbands will choose them over alcohol - husbands longing to choose her over his addiction yet unable to...

Sons and daughters fighting over-seas - mother's unsure they'll ever see them again.

Grown children experiencing the role-reversal of caring for their elderly parents - trying to decide what kind of care is best for them...doubting if they can care for them...

People whose loved ones are facing death - they pray for their last-minute salvation - they pray for their loved-one to not fear death...

The prayers of God's children are too overwhelming for me...He tells us to come with anything and lay it at His feet - and lay them down I do for they are too heavy to hold...and so the requests continue to  come and we pray and they come and we pray...

Even in their heaviness praying for them is one of my greatest privileges.

Oh that this day their fears, and struggles and cares are covered by His love and the peace that comes only through Him...only through Him..........

blessings

My phone died today so I was out of touch with everything going on.

When I got back on my computer I read the prayer requests from the weekend congregation. This line was at the end of one of the requests.

"I praise God that we still have a job and mostly that Jesus died for our sins"

Out of all the prayer requests I read this very simple Praise - stuck out to me...just the simplicity caught my attention. It made me remember and consider just how much every single day I should be thankful for my amazing blessings!

There is nothing that makes any problem I have disappear faster then reading other's prayer requests. The ask for help, the hope that the church holds the answer to struggles they are going through is just so genuine and in some cases the last chance for answers. But in all circumstances...

I am thankful 'mostly that Jesus died for our sins.'